New England Landscape Analysis

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New England Landscape, No.8: Mt Monadnock, ca. 1912 - 1916 is an oil on panel done by Pennsylvanian artist Charles Demuth. It is not a large landscape, 31 X 471 cm, for such a mountainous subject but then Monadnock is small, as mountains go. Demuth used the Fauvist method to depict Monadnock, a perfect method considering his subject. Ranges of mountains line the Eastern and Western borders of New Hampshire, Monadnock stand alone in the southern portion of the state, alone and wild. Demuth divides his painting into a series of triangles, Monadnock’s triangular form is majestic in the background with light bright colors to the right and darker, storm tinted colors to the left. The shortened foreground continues with the triangular motif,

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